New research looked at NSW Year 12 results in English and maths and tested if socioeconomic status or rural location impacts student results.
- Professor (Curriculum Inquiry / Rural Education), University of Canberra
How will the move to online study, and the disruption of routine, affect year 12 students’ abilities to perform and, consequently, their grades? And what does this mean for university entry?
Some subjects are more likely to get you into university. But more advantaged students access these subjects. This means we have an unequal system.
There is no need for all students to sit the same test, that asks the same questions, on the same day. We are smarter than that.
A government review of regional, rural and remote education tells us we need to recognise the uniqueness of and understand successes in these communities to improve outcomes for these students.
If we fail to recognise that standardised tests are metro-centric, we will continue to produce disadvantage for rural students.
‘Vote No’ campaign material distributed by the Australian Conservatives claims that if same-sex marriage is legalised, the Safe Schools program will be ‘mandatory in schools’. We looked at the facts.
Staffing rural schools has been an issue in Australia for at least 113 years. We need a fresh approach to tackle this persistent problem.
The Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA) submission to the review of the Australian National Curriculum has stated the primary curriculum is overcrowded and some complex content is unnecessary…
It’s been a big week for education. Amidst all the confusion and politics on school funding of the last week there have been a couple of repeated mantras by the federal education minister – namely that…
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